Associations to the word «Backstitch»
Wiktionary
BACKSTITCH, noun. (sewing) A type of sewing stitch where the stitch goes backwards on the top side of the fabric and doubles forward on the bottom, coming out farther in front, then repeats. The backstitch is a very tight and secure stitch, and also looks very neat.
BACKSTITCH, verb. To sew with a backstitch.
Dictionary definition
BACKSTITCH, noun. An overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one.
BACKSTITCH, verb. Do backstitches.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.